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Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sebastian@phpc.social ("Sebastian Bergmann :phpunit:") wrote:

In an article he published in July, @andrewnez explains the size of npm dependency trees with the resolver.

In PHP, the resolver is ultimately the engine itself: one name, one definition, one version per process.

That is why PHP trees stay small, and why PHPUnit's PHAR has to rename its dependencies:

https://phpunit.expert/articles/one-version-per-process.html?ref=mastodon